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Tally, a teal-skinned, black haired half-orc with black tattoos cosplaying as Ais from Touchstarved.

Ghayth, a green skinned half-orc with brown hair and golden eyes from the neck up

Full-body picture of Roshan, a gold dragonborn with red eyes, horns and claws, is dressed in purple and brown, holding the torn-off lure of a sea hag.

A zoomed in shot of the face of Roshan, post-firebreathing, reflecting a fire in her red eyes.

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WHAT LETS GOOOOOO

Writers should internalize Lao Tzu's lesson about how the emptiness at the center of a wheel is what makes it useful, and how a pot is valuable because of where the clay *isn't*. Corporate geek culture has warped us into thinking that negative spaces are flaws that need to be fixed.

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If you need art, I got what you need!

I need work. To survive, thrive, pay bills, and keep my head up.

But despite my efforts, the world has been silent in response.

If you or anyone you know needs a games writer, a copywriter, a game designer, an editor, a world builder, or a sensitivity consultant, or even a paid playtester, call!

I am FLIPPING OUT about this!!

Tally, a teal-skinned, black haired half-orc with black tattoos cosplaying as Ais from Touchstarved.

Ghayth, a green skinned half-orc with brown hair and golden eyes from the neck up

Full-body picture of Roshan, a gold dragonborn with red eyes, horns and claws, is dressed in purple and brown, holding the torn-off lure of a sea hag.

A zoomed in shot of the face of Roshan, post-firebreathing, reflecting a fire in her red eyes.

Commissions are open! ko-fi.com/neonsaline/c...

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I've got a goal for this month's commissions! I'm trying to hustle up a little extra money to visit family next week and working on saving up for some Big Tings this fall.

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YES! I’ll be there.

Cosmos A home for curating your universe

Here's your reminder that cosmos www.cosmos.so/home exists as a better pinterest that lets you opt out of AI posts

Back at it again with the banger patches

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Hello again, tabletop RPG designers! The second Bannerless Games Tabletop RPG Grant is now taking applications!

I'm looking to award up to 10 grants at $200 apiece.

Applications open until the end of the month. Apply here: bannerless.games/grants

SPEAK ON IT

Ghost: Independent technology for modern publishing Beautiful, modern publishing with newsletters and premium subscriptions built-in. Used by Sky, 404Media, Lever News, Tangle, The Browser, and thousands more.

I want to talk about my move from Substack to Ghost for a second, and what it's been like working with a nonprofit tech company that actually lives its values.

Especially if you're a writer still on Subtack, please read. 1/x

First of all, about the org: They are a nonprofit, I just met employee +

I can’t imagine THE Keith David responding to my post. I would Freak Out.

And it won’t end with trans rights either! Next it’ll be “well, there should be some reasonable limitations with diversity measures” or “protesting police brutality too much might cost us elections”. Shit, just last year they randomly decided to be tough on the boarder!

Too much "we're cooked" & not enough "we're not gonna take this shit"

Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American history museum A temporary placard, on display since 2021, described the president's historic impeachments. Officials said the exhibit was restored to an earlier version following a review of legacy content.

Save hard copies of books. What LLMs don't erase from the internet, fascists will erase from public life. Nothing digital or temporary (like a museum exhibit) is safe. Keep hard copies of history. Slavery. The Holocaust. Civil rights. Everything.

a logo image that says - conjured ink. following the logo, the graphic says anti-censorship, pro-weird, seller shop software.

the same text as in the post is on this graphic, followed by a cartoon of a canadian witch girl flying on a hockeystick broom

Itch and Steam got a bunch of us thinking; we need a catalogue where creative (esp. NSFW & Queer) works are less vulnerable to censorship. A storefront we won't be delisted from. One giving us the autonomy to sell our stuff our way. So we're making Conjured Ink. You can join us. https://conjured.ink

YASSSSS!!

Visa employees clearly told to deescalate ASAP
MasterCard employees more than familiar with the issue
Stripe feeling the pressure
ACLU put out a statement
CBC covered all this

What you are doing is WORKING
You are getting RESULTS
KEEP CALLING
KEEP WRITING
WE ARE GOING TO WIN!!

a disembodied mouth superimposed atop a phone, yelling the logos of mastercard, visa, and paypal

Inside the mass call campaign to stop video game censorship

aftermath.site/steam-itch-p...

Demand every processor tell you when they launched an investigation into steam, itch, patreon, and what illegal content they found. When they say it's because theyre "high risk", ask them why they're discriminating against protected groups. Repeat. They're blaming each other because they're scared.

Mastercard finally issued an official company statement.
It's mealy-mouthed and evasive and tries slight-of-hand with their "at the same time, we require merchants to have appropriate controls" with a load-bearing "appropriate"

They are feeling the heat, loves
Keep the pressure on, don't let up

Reminder that this got rescheduled for TONIGHT at 7:00pm EST!

Hop to my twitch channel for BLACK IN TTRPGS: How to Tell Liberatory Stories

See yall there!

Hey folks - posting for a colleague, they're looking for Kenyan voice actors of any gender with access to a good remote recording setup. It's a paid role - if you're interested, please comment and I'll pass on your info

(if you don't fit the brief, signal boosting is appreciated, thank you!)

Nintendo announced a Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase!

Length: 25 minutes

I just saw a video on my fyp by a Japanese person quoting a Japanese study that said that Korean people are 90% genetically matched to Japanese people and I need you all to understand something.

This is a dog whistle.

The Japanese Empire used this talking point to justify horrible atrocities

Still looking, still available for work.

Job seeking in the games industry is rough as hell right now. 🫠